Florida Food Forest Tour By Expert Permaculture Instructor

If you've been wondering what is permaculture, this farm tour at Grow Permaculture in Brooksville, Florida will highlight a range of permaculture principles including growing a Florida food forest, central Florida gardening cultivars, and techniques for vegetable and herb gardening, as well as creating a resilient system for self-sufficiency. Koreen Brennan will show you how to plant a mulberry tree in a swale system, grow elderberry without irrigation, and a terrace garden as a perennial herb garden. This is a working model of permaculture design for sustainable agriculture.

0:00 - What is a Food Forest?
01:30 - Grow Permaculture Food Forest
03:02 - Mulberry Tree Orchard
04:25 - Hugelkultur Swale
06:25 - Elderberry
08:25 - Toilet Paper Plant
08:54 - Landrace seeds
09:30 - Perennial kale
10:05 - Central Florida Gardening

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[lisacordell]

Love tours of gardens and permaculture in Florida.

[greenhousefun]

It’s seems that people can grow everything in Florida. No one shouldn’t go hungry. This is beautiful. I’m in Va my food Forrest is coming along wonderfully. Thanks for the inspiration

[USA]

Yes more tours please. Every size garden/forest possible! Extra small to full scale forests

[johngault]

I have bees (here in Jax, Fl) all year around; everything from native bees to honeybees (I don't raise honeybees). My secret is allowing certain weeds to grow and most are native and they do an incredible job at attracting all types of pollinators, including butterflies and various hoverflies as well as any bee species in my area. Just some of my favorite "weeds" Snow Square Stem (Melanthera nivea), Florida Betony (Stachys floridana), Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana), Wood Sorrel (Oxalis crassipes), Blanket Flower (Gaillardia pulchella), Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana), American Nightshade (Solanum americanum) and Poke Weed (Phytolacca americana). The vast majority of these are native and are incredible at attracting not only pollinators, but also other types of wildlife.

[francestutt]

Yes more tours of SW FL. Yes little tidbits are great!

[WildFloridian]

Thank you for taking us on a Food Forest tour! I have a mini-Food Forest and I’m slowly expanding and I always enjoy getting ideas. 😄 Cheers!

[arizonajo]

More permaculture for Central Florida please!

[marjoleinbaas]

Yes, I live near Brooksville and I want to start a food forest, so this video was very helpful, thanks!

[cl]

Permaculture, and garden tours....Yes please! Thank you!!!!

[patientlywaiting]

Yes, this is great! Please do more like this!

[risshanson]

I’m in hillsborough country Florida and I’m looking for like minded people to learn from about food forest, gardening and homesteading. I read and research and experiment a lot on my own; but it’s always nice to find people in your zone to learn from and connect with.

[ericajones]

Yes, please keep them.xomimg love all the tours.

[HardcoreSustainable]

It's so true what she said about choosing the right cultivar for the climate. There are plenty of squashes selected and adapted to tropics and subtropics. Or just completely different crops that will do better and provide similar food.

[northeasthardytropicals]

Big fan of these tours. Florida’s got it going on 👍🏼

[smartinez]

Thank for for this video video. We live in the Spring Hill area so I’m always happy to see and learn gardening methods from people living close by. I would be very interested in seeing more tours of people’s gardens/food forests. Thanks again.

[jamesparish]

Awesome. Doing a mini version in SW FL. Have to hand pollinate Seminole Pumpkin due to lack of bees.

Appreciate the info and love that Serj Tankian attended the tour!

[heatherdiaz]

I just recently found your channel, and I’m so grateful for you sharing your wealth of knowledge for central Florida growers! I have been working hard to find ways to keep adding food to our property, year round, and your channel will help me keep things healthy and growing!

[pedroluisIV]

Moving to Jacksonville for good, this is great information. Thank you!

[shawnstangeland]

Just outstanding! Am working on one in Pensacola but am using native plants

[jthorpe]

I'm doing some experiments of a food forest in Lakeland I really like how the kill grows Dino kill Dino kale looks beautiful